Daily Digital Discoveries 01/28/2014
Newsela | About Newsela “Newsela is an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that’s always relevant: daily news. It’s easy and amazing. Register now or learn more...
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ClassBadges ClassBadges is a free online tool where teachers can award badges to students for accomplishments or academic mastery. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for...
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63 Things Every Student Should Know In A Digital World But in an increasingly connected and digital world, the things a student needs to know are indeed changing-fundamental human needs sometimes...
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Put the internet to work for you. – IFTTT IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: If this, then that. Very powerful way to combine many web and social...
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: educational quotes Inspiring educational quotes tags: educational technology quotes Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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How to Gamify Professional Development in Your School – A.J. Juliani An example of flipping and gamifying PD in Wissahickon School District with step-by-step directions and tips. tags: professional...
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Tutorial for MLA Format in Google Docs – YouTube This is a tutorial on properly formatting an MLA document in Google Docs. tags: tutorial mla google docs The Student’s Guide To Proper Social Media...
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Stories Come Alive! Welcome to the Stories Come Alive Wiki. Here you will find many ideas for “digital story telling”. Put away your paper and pencils and put technology at your fingertips. Your...
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Photo Editor | iPiccy: Free Online Photo Editing for You iPiccy gives you all the power to edit photos right in your browser without any installation for free. Just upload any image to photo editor...
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Social media gives professional development a long tail In many schools and learning organizations, professional development is still an “event.” It’s something that happens a few times a year,...
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The Flip Side of Professional Development | EdSurge News We created a flipped PD model because we believed face-to-face time with technology integration experts should not be spent learning how to use...
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8 Studies Show iPads in the Classroom Improve Education There have been many interesting studies done about iPads in the classroom and the effects on both students and teachers. I’ve pulled together a...
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FlipCon14 Annual Conference / FlipCon14 Onsite and virtual event for and by flipped educators tags: flipped FlippedClassroom flippedlearning Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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Verso With everything you need to perform the entire Flip process in one beautiful and easy-to-use app, Verso does more than give you back classroom time. Verso takes the flipped classroom to the next...
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8 Steps To Flipped Teacher Professional Development Oftentimes these “professional growth plans” are scribbled out in 15 minute meetings with your principal, then “revisited” at the end of the year as...
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A Copyright-Friendly Toolkit | Smore A true digital citizen understands how to ethically use the works of others to build his or her own creative products—music, art, video, stories, presentations–and...
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32 Habits That Make Thinkers The difference between students and learners is something we’ve discussed before. On the surface it’s a matter of tone and compliance, but it also has to do with...
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Quadblogging Since its conception more and more teachers from across the globe have used Quadblogging to gain a genuine audience for their learners. Whether you are a Nursery teacher in Nigeria or an...
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13 Free Web Tools Students and Teachers Should Know About | MindShift Web-based tools continue to proliferate, giving teachers more to add to their arsenal, but it can be hard to determine which...
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Rewordify.com: Understand what you read Rewordify.com helps you read more, understand difficult English faster, and learn words in new ways. Just paste in difficult English (or enter a web page URL)...
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